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Bioethics: Life and Morality Issues

This document discusses several topics in bioethics including: - The definition of bioethics as dealing with problems of life, dying, health, and healing. - Perspectives on promoting healthy relationships and co-responsibility. - The attempt to rationalize advances in medical technology. - Defining health holistically to include bodily, psychic, spiritual, and religious dimensions. - Classifying crimes against human life such as suicide, mutilation, sterilization, and euthanasia. - Distinguishing between therapeutic, eugenic, and punitive sterilization. - Defining drug addiction, alcoholism, and abortion.

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Bioethics: Life and Morality Issues

This document discusses several topics in bioethics including: - The definition of bioethics as dealing with problems of life, dying, health, and healing. - Perspectives on promoting healthy relationships and co-responsibility. - The attempt to rationalize advances in medical technology. - Defining health holistically to include bodily, psychic, spiritual, and religious dimensions. - Classifying crimes against human life such as suicide, mutilation, sterilization, and euthanasia. - Distinguishing between therapeutic, eugenic, and punitive sterilization. - Defining drug addiction, alcoholism, and abortion.

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PROBLEMS

OF
BIOETHICS
BIOETHICS
• Bioethics is that branch of Ethics which deals
directly with the problems of life and dying, of
health and of healing.

- It comes from "bio" which means life and from


"ethics" which is morality.
• BERNARD HARING
-The main concern of perspectives will be the
promotion of healthy relationships and co-responsibility
in creative liberty and fidelity

• THOMAS A. SHANON
-Bioethics is the attempt to rationalize application and
use of many advances in medical technology.
The Meaning of Health

-Health as bodily fitness, consisting in the absence of


pain or illness. Health, however, in its holistic sense,
includes the bodily, psychic, spiritual and religious
dimensions of man.
• CRIMES AGAINST HUMAN LIFE

1. SUICIDE- is defined as the international killing of


oneself and by one’s own authority.
2. MUTILATION- is the cutting off of a limb or
removal of an organ integral to the human body.
3. STERILIZATION- is the incapacity to transmit life.
Sterilization is a surgical operation which renders a
man or woman incapable of transmitting life.
• MORALISTS GIVE THE FOLLOWING DISTINCTIONS:

a. Therapeutic sterilization is intended to preserve the


well-being of the whole body and is therefore
permissible.
b. Eugenic sterilization is intended to prevent
procreation in an otherwise healthy and normal
person.
c. Punitive sterilization is intended as a punishment for
certain criminals as practiced in some countries.
4.EUTHANASIA- Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is an act
of inducing death painlessly in order to abort the suffering
of one afflicted with an incurable or unbearable sickness.

a. Legalizing euthanasia would confer upon a person,


especially the sick and the aged, the right to request the
service of euthanasia to the extent that a State may simply
inflict a kind of social death on the aged and sick and the
aged, and suffering on those it may consider useless and a
burden.
b. Legalizing euthanasia would strengthen the trend towards
suicide by those who, explicitly or without so many words,
are told that they are a burden to others and to the society.

c. It might split the medical rodillion requerose who


absolutely respect life and those who are willing to kill on
request
5. DRUG ADDICTION- is the state of psychic or physical
dependence, or both, on a dangerous drug, arising in a person
following the administration of use of drug on a periodic or
continuous basis.
6. ALCOHOLISM- is the state of dependence on the
stimulation of wine and liquor.
7. ABORTION- is the international expulsion of a fetus
which cannot survive by itself outside of the womb of the
mother.

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